Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  7 Per)  ·  7 chi Per  ·  Double cluster  ·  Misam  ·  NGC 869  ·  NGC 884  ·  The star Misam al Thurayya I (χ Per  ·  chi Persei Cluster  ·  h Persei Cluster
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NGC869 and NGC884, Dan Kusz
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NGC869 and NGC884

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NGC869 and NGC884, Dan Kusz
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NGC869 and NGC884

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This was more of a test than anything else. I have avoided broadband targets since moving north as I went from a bortle 4 to, at the best of times, bortle 6. The light pollution and directionality of it causes severe gradients in broadband subs. I simply imaged one hour each RGB, but using short 15 second subs.  The shorter subs did mitigate some light pollution issues and made them easier to correct. This area aslo has a nice rich background Ha, but I did not take subs for this as I did not know if my broadband would be usable. Overall I am surprised and pleased with the result and will be incorporating more broadband targets into my imaging plans.

Thanks for looking
CS
Dan.

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NGC869 and NGC884, Dan Kusz